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4/13/2013: This site has moved officially to its domain, and a new website has been launched that will eventually replace this one. Check it out: www.subethasoftware.com

Welcome to a totally thrown together web page for my old company, Sub-Etha Software. The company was originally formed in 1990 as a partnership between myself, Allen Huffman, and Terry Todd. To see more on the history of Sub-Etha, view this old web page.

This page is a temporary holding spot for some PERL CGI scripts I have been working on lately. If you find any of them interesting or useful, please let me know. Thanks!

Featured Scripts:

(Updated! 2/7/2004) Whos On Now? v1.2 - (I don't know... THIRD BASE!) this script replaces a service like AddFreeStats' In Live! by giving you a count of how many visitors are currently on your site. The script will log every access by IP address and time stamp, then output how many visitors have loaded that page within a specified amount of time. It will display either "There is/are X visitor(s) currently on the site." or "There have/has been X visitor(s)s within the past Y second(s)/minute(s)/hour(s)." with the appropriate pluralization (visitor/visitors, minutes/minute, seconds/second). Even AddFreeStats doesn't do that! The new 1.2 release supports hours ("last 24 hours" or "last 1 hour and 30 minutes").
(NEW! 9/8/2001) Points v1.0 - this simple script may be of interest to dieters. It calculates the "point value" of various food items based on calories, fat, and fiber.
(Updated! 8/8/2001) Borderlines v1.1 - based on an old rotating quote system from a BBS package in the 1980s, this cute little script allows site visitors to post one-liners which you can display randomly on one of your pages (requires SSI). IP address is logged and there is a special admin mode to view the complete set of borderlines including IP address. SysOp can now delete entries, too. I like this one!
(NEW! 8/4/2001) Guess Game - a simple CGI game I wrote the other night to practice PERL. You can configure the script to a range (1-10, 1-1000) and then the user tries to guess the magic random number. Heh.

Coming Soon:

Counter - yep, yet another counter. this one will not only give a listing of total hits, hits this month, hits this week and hits today, but it will also support a more flexible IP cache so you can say "don't count anyone who has been here in the past X minutes/hours". By setting that to a 24 hour period, it suddenly becomes a "daily visitor" counter. Should be fun.
Revealing - a trivial script that shows information about your site visitor (IP address, browser type, etc.). Boring.
Login - the first in a series of PERL "modules" to simulate features found in the old 1980s BBS packages. This one will initially be a registration and login component. Using a cookie, the visitor will be greeted by name when they return. Other modules will make use of this system for their features meaning you won't have five different scripts requiring five different registrations :-)
...and more!

Full site content coming soon... -- Allen

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(the 2nd version of our logo from around 1992)

(the new version of our logo, work in progress 2001)

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Sub-Etha Software

Sub-Etha Software

"In Support of the CoCo and OS-9 since 1990!"

This is somewhat embarrassing, isn’t it?

Sub-Etha Software

"In Support of the CoCo and OS-9 since 1990!"

This is somewhat embarrassing, isn’t it?